Topic: Franklin Roosevelt

President George W. Bush's State of the Union address Tuesday contained one notable omission. It failed to propose any credible plan whereby the federal budget

Monday I looked at president Herbert Hoover's mistakes leading into the Great Depression, and asked whether they could be perpetrated again; today I look at the New Deal itself, and at which of its economic follies are liable to recur.

"FDR's folly" (Jim Powell, Crown Forum, $27.50) demonstrates, by use of economic rather than political analysis, that the majority of New Deal policies (and of president Herbert Hoover's economic policies) were counterproductive, and prolonged the Great D

Edward Teller, known as the father of the hydrogen bomb, has died at his home on the Stanford University campus after suffering a stroke. He was 95.

Can a discipline that's been called the "dismal science" be the subject of a six-hour TV documentary that will glue you to your set and keep you coming back episode after episode? Surprisingly, yes.

With a year and a half to go before the next presidential election, many things can still go wrong for the Bush administration, but assuming they do not, or do so within reasonable limits, on current projections the outlook is quite clear. George W. Bush

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The first group of about 50 professional airline pilots is going through training on the use of handguns in the cockpit.

NBC correspondent Peter Arnett has lost his job for straying from journalistic mandates in covering the war in Iraq.